Penman Neel, Kelly Prentice and Maegan Ferry
The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor recently hired Neel as finance and personnel manager, Prentice as community engagement manager, and Ferry as GIS analyst and cartographer.
Neel has overall responsibility for financial functions and overseeing human resource activities of the D&L National Heritage Corridor Inc. Neel will work collaboratively with other staff professionals in communications, grants, trails management and educational programming and administration.
Neel previously served as accounting manager at Schutt Reconditioning in Easton and, before that, as accounting manager at Sanbor Medical Corp. in Allentown. Neel holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Mississippi.
Prentice manages communications, media relations, Google AdWords, and social media. Additionally, she oversees volunteer engagement for the nonprofit, including the relaunch of the D&L Ambassador program.
Prentice comes to the D&L with more than 18 years as a writer and public relations professional for a variety of clients including Lafayette College, Grand View Health, and Kimball-Hughes PR. Prentice holds a bachelor's degree in English with a specialty in science writing from DeSales University. Ferry manages the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor's Geographic Information System and online trail map system, assists the data driven sustainability program using GIS, and oversees the visually speaking signage program.
Before coming to the D&L, she worked in private consulting as a GIS and geospatial analyst. She has a background in GIS/ mapping sciences, landscape analysis and environmental science. In 2016, Ferry earned her bachelor and master's degrees in geoenvironmental studies from Shippensburg University. manager. Guth will help build and shape the value-based care management and work toward shared goals with the Lehigh Valley Physician Hospital Organization and commercial payers. She joined Lehigh Valley Health Network in 2010, working in the medical surgical float pool as nursing supervisor and then as patient care specialist.
Lori Piltz was named quality and training analyst. She will manage internal and external quality improvement initiatives, serving the utilization management and valuebased care management teams, BeneFIT Corporate Wellness, and Preferred EAP.
Madeline Chaffee is the new strategic wellness consultant. Chaffee will provide strategic wellness consultation to BeneFIT Corporate Wellness clients and also support the My Total Health program for LVHN colleagues. She holds a Bachelor of Science in public health from Southern Connecticut State University and is a master certified health education specialist.
Group Health
Becky Grover, client services specialist, was most recently a plan sponsor liaison at Aetna. Beforehand, she was a claims data specialist and customer service representative at Aetna.
Lisa Harbits, benefit analyst, is responsible for processing medical claims. She spent more than 11 years processing medical, dental, vision, and FSA claims and, previously, 15 years processing claims for Guardian.
Health Care Analytics
Dan Royer, senior health care data analyst, has seven years of experience focusing on analytics and business intelligence.
Royer works on projects focusing on payer analytics and care pathways initiatives. He recently completed his Masters of Business Intelligence and Analytics from St. Joseph's University.
Informatics
Steven Cortright, web development, is joining the web development team, working on custom applications including the Secure Provider Portal, Provider Web and ACE. Cortright earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at Kutztown University. He has three years' experience at East Penn Manufacturing in Kutztown and PowerSchool in Bethlehem.
Information Technology
Doug Kirschman, senior application development and support analyst, brings close to 15 years of application development and support experience as well as project and team leadership experience to the IT team. He previously was at PPL, where he was a senior application developer on the customer service web development team.
Insurance Services and Payer Contracting
Samantha Iannelli, director of payer relations, has focused on continuous improvement efforts, supporting strategic goals and initiatives within LVHN. She is pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Southern University.
Tesha Wheeler, promoted to payer contracting coordinator, has been working with insurance services in an administrative support capacity since January 2018. Wheeler will focus on developing work flow systems through project management that will further structure operations within the team framework, engaging with payers and aligning new initiatives within the network. Provider and Payer Services
Allison Rompilla, promoted to credentialing specialist, joined the provider and payer services team in July as a provider and network services support representative. Before joining Populytics, Rompilla was an insurance enrollment specialist with Lehigh Valley Physician Group since 2007.
Stacy Sieger, promoted to provider and payer account coordinator, joined the provider and payer team in 2016 as a provider service representative and was recently moved into a credentialing specialist role. As account coordinator, she is responsible for managing all internal and external projects ensuring each is completed within regulatory compliance standards.